Speaker
Dr
Jens Osterhoff
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Description
The FLASHForward project at DESY, Germany, is an innovative plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA) experiment, aiming to accelerate electron beams to GeV energies over a few centimetres of ionised gas. Stable and high-quality electron beams from the SCRF FLASH linear accelerator will act as a driver. The experimental configuration will allow for investigation into both internal and external witness-beam injection techniques e.g. density-downramp and double bunch injection. Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are being used to assess the efficacy of these techniques, providing a range of experimental properties for the accelerated bunches. In order to confirm the predictions of PIC codes a wide range of diagnostic tools is required. Accompanying the more traditional PWFA techniques - such as electron spectrometry, projected emittance reconstruction, and X-ray diagnostics - the FLASHForward post-plasma beam line will include ~fs longitudinal phase space and transverse slice emittance measurements of both the drive- and witness-beams. The operation parameters of FLASHForward, as well as the physics case and current experimental status, will be reviewed. Concepts of the main components currently under design and implementation - the target area, plasma cell, post-plasma beam transport, and diagnostics - will be described.
Primary author
Dr
Jens Osterhoff
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Co-authors
Dr
Alberto Martinez de la Ossa
(DESY)
Mr
Alexander Aschikhin
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Mr
Alexander Knetsch
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Dr
Bernhard Schmidt
(DESY)
Prof.
Brian Foster
(DESY)
Mrs
Bridget Sheeran
(DESY)
Dr
Charlotte Palmer
(DESY)
Ms
Gabriele Tauscher
(DESY)
Mr
Jan-Hendrik Roeckemann
(DESY)
Mr
Jan-Patrick Schwinkendorf
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
Dr
Johann Zemella
(DESY)
Dr
John Dale
(DESY)
Mr
Lars Goldberg
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Dr
Laura Di Lucchio
(Forschungszentrum Juelich)
Dr
Lucas Schaper
(University Hamburg / DESY)
Mr
Martin Quast
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Dr
Matthew Streeter
(DESY)
Olena Kononenko
(Deutsches-Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
Dr
Pardis Niknejadi
(DESY)
Dr
Richard D'Arcy
(DESY)
Mrs
Sarah Schroeder
(DESY)
Mr
Simon Bohlen
(DESY - FLA)
Dr
Stephan Wesch
(DESY)
Dr
Timon Mehrling
(Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)
Dr
Vladyslav Libov
(DESY)
